Welder - 2nd Shift
Location
New Salem Borough, PA
Wage
$38,502/yr
Employment Type
Temporary
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 18, 2026
Location
New Salem Borough, PA
Wage
$38,502/yr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on August 18, 2026
The Welder is responsible for completing assigned welding tasks as part of a team to produce customer fabrication orders accurately and on schedule, while maintaining high productivity and safety standards. The role involves operating various welding equipment and adhering to company safety protocols.
At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 34% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $23–$32/hr across 150 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 5% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in New Salem Borough, PA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 230 other active welding openings from 149 employers. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (15), Aerotek (11), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $30/hr, York at $27/hr, and Lancaster at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for Stick. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder - 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.